Gerald R. Ford Quotes

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

This country is being killed by people who try to break us down, tear us down and make us little when we have to be big.

The Union we intend to keep, and loyal states will not let disloyal ones break it.

Nations should live in an atmosphere of self-criticism because it is healthy, but always with one heart and one mind.

Should the idea get abroad that there is likely to be no union among us, it will damp the minds of the people, diminish the glory of our struggle, and lessen its importance; because it will open to our view future prospects of war and dissension among ourselves

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

We are going to have to do some real soul searching as a country and try to bring America together, because it is divided.

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we're not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We're all Americans.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

USA Today hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.

I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.

Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

I am asking you to believe once again in America.

In the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, 'One Nation Under God.'